Media, and fridge logic
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rmdFirst, I must share with everyone because it is fabulous: Merrimack valley kids do a shot-for-shot remake of the "Ghostbusters trailer
Second: OKAY. I saw "Se7en" back in the 90's. I don't think I saw it in the theater, but on cable or rental or something. But it just hit Netflix streaming, so I figured I'd watch it again. And so I watched it again.
I HAVE A QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS MOVIE. I mean, even working from the context of the movie where this sort of freaky serial-killing is, you know, a kind of thing that happens. Maybe it's another movie in the same fictional universe as the NBC "Hannibal" tv show because in that universe "artful murder" is a pretty common cause of death. (The rest of this post contains spoilers for a movie that's even older than my pickup truck.)
So, John Doe is a methodical man. He has spent *years* making his plans, choosing his targets, ordering custom freaky leatherwork, spending a year with the sloth guy who he spends a year torturing, etc.
What was his original endgame?
He says he changed his plans after meeting Mills (who is brand new to the department and thus has been completely off Doe's radar until a few days ago at the earliest), and evidently he suddenly shifted gears - after years of planning, mind you - to make Mills his "wrath" victim and Doe himself the "Envy" victim. Was he originally planning to be the envy victim all along? Is there someone out there who he envies far more than Mills - envies with the momentum and depth of months or years of craving? What was this amazing denouement he had planned, and how big a mancrush does he have on Mills that he threw that all over in favor of intimate art murder with Mills?
What the hell, man.
Second: OKAY. I saw "Se7en" back in the 90's. I don't think I saw it in the theater, but on cable or rental or something. But it just hit Netflix streaming, so I figured I'd watch it again. And so I watched it again.
I HAVE A QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS MOVIE. I mean, even working from the context of the movie where this sort of freaky serial-killing is, you know, a kind of thing that happens. Maybe it's another movie in the same fictional universe as the NBC "Hannibal" tv show because in that universe "artful murder" is a pretty common cause of death. (The rest of this post contains spoilers for a movie that's even older than my pickup truck.)
So, John Doe is a methodical man. He has spent *years* making his plans, choosing his targets, ordering custom freaky leatherwork, spending a year with the sloth guy who he spends a year torturing, etc.
What was his original endgame?
He says he changed his plans after meeting Mills (who is brand new to the department and thus has been completely off Doe's radar until a few days ago at the earliest), and evidently he suddenly shifted gears - after years of planning, mind you - to make Mills his "wrath" victim and Doe himself the "Envy" victim. Was he originally planning to be the envy victim all along? Is there someone out there who he envies far more than Mills - envies with the momentum and depth of months or years of craving? What was this amazing denouement he had planned, and how big a mancrush does he have on Mills that he threw that all over in favor of intimate art murder with Mills?
What the hell, man.
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